Palmer Island Light

Palmer Island Light Station is a historic lighthouse in New Bedford Harbor in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. The lighthouse was built in 1849 out of stone rubble. It was discontinued when the harbor's hurricane barrier was built in the early 1960s, as its location immediately north of the barrier was no longer an outlying danger and there are lights on either side of the barrier opening.

Palmers Island Light
Palmer Island Light, in 2013
LocationNew Bedford, Massachusetts
Coordinates41°37′37″N 70°54′33″W
Year first constructed1849
Automated1941 
Deactivated1962, reactivated as a private aid (1999)
Tower shapeConical rubble tower
Markings / patternWhite
Tower height7 metre 
Focal height13 metre 
Original lensFifth order Fresnel lens
CharacteristicFl W 8s
Fog signalOriginal: Bell
Current: none
USCG number1-16898[1][2]
Heritageplace listed on the National Register of Historic Places 
Palmer Island Light Station
ArchitectCharles M. Pierce
MPSLighthouses of Massachusetts TR (AD)
NRHP reference No.80000433 [3]
Added to NRHPMarch 26, 1980

From 1888 until 1891 it served, with Fairhaven Bridge Light, as a range light to guide vessels past Butler Flats, a rocky shoal on the west side of the entrance channel.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Palmer Island Light Station on March 26, 1980.[3]

Nomenclature
  • The USCG historical web site[1] calls it "Palmer Island Light"
  • The current USCG Light List[2] calls it "Palmers Island Light"
  • The National Register of Historic Places[3] calls it "Palmer Island Light Station"

See also

References
  1. "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Massachusetts". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. 2009-09-01. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
  2. United States Coast Guard (2009). Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey. p. 152.
  3. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

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